An attack of a new cyber space hit the Olympics in Paris. In fact, on the night of Saturday the 3rd August, was in the Grand Palais, a museum of france, which currently hosts races in the skermës, and taekwondo, which fell victim to an attack ransomware”. The news was reported by the newspaper Le Parisien, and it was later confirmed by the prosecutor's office pariziane, which tended to be emphasized that, “there is found no effect on the development of events on the Olympic Games”. Therefore, it may have been an attempt unsuccessful, given the fact that the management of the museum, confirmed that there were no consequences at an olympics, and even in “the 36 libraries, the museums, the national management of the Grand Palais Rmn, which continued to operate as if nothing had it not happened.
The attacks of the other
Everything is well that ends well, and not just in the case. For issue 33 of the Games, the Olympic was the death of the story, which is it is the target of attacks by cyber criminals cyber. Last week, for instance, the prime minister of france, in a departure, Gabriel Attal, declared to the 68 cyber attacks it was discovered in the early days of the insured event, the sport, the first two of which were the locations where they held Games in Bercy, and the La Villette. Since then, as reported by the tv Attal, “they are not identified in a timely manner and prevent them”, in order not to create problems for the competition. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the special attention of the organizers, this phenomenon remains high.
In the preparation of the defence
By contrast, the French agency for the safety of information (ANSSI), from two years ago, as it prepares to deal with the risks that are associated with the organization of the Games, the Olympic, to do the testing exponential – attacks, cyber force, to assess the level of protection of the system. IT, and the ability of the protagonists of the organization is “to scale”. “The goal for us is to be forced to to delete a 100% of the attacks that will occur during the Games, the Olympic stated Vincent Strubel, director ANSSI, prillin the past -. The goal is to be forced to to delete the majority of the attacks, by increasing the level of security. One goal that seems to Paris he went to the match as good as possible, giving back as the consequences as well as the sabotimit of the railway network, which was a night before the ceremony of the opening, as well as the the corruption of the media to fiber optic a few days later. In other words, the organization of the Games, it seems that it is worthy of a medal for his exceptional ability to resist the criminals-cyber.
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